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Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat (JTAPIC) program—the name itself implies its vast scale. Formed in July 2006, the program is a partnership among DoD intelligence, operational, medical, and materiel-development communities that collects, integrates, and analyzes injury and operational data from theater. The goal is to improve DoD's...

Leap of Faith is a three-day seminar/growth experience created by Operation Support Our Troops – America for family members who have lost a loved one while serving on active duty. The event addresses grief and loss. The event teaches principles of courage, trust, letting go, and building community. The key principles of the seminar are how change happens,...

University scientists saw an extraordinary glow from the honeycomb edges of monolayered triangular islands of WS2 for the first time and knew this would be groundbreaking.
The Penn State University researchers were looking at forming one or two atom thick layers of a naturally occurring rare mineral called tungstenite, or WS2, that has a structure consisting...

In order to protect Soldiers' lives, military vehicles in combat must be capable of surviving severe hostile fires. When hit with large hostile fire weapons, internally stowed ammunition may react resulting in catastrophic loss of life and system.
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), then the Ballistics Research Laboratory (BRL), developed effective ammunition...

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's (ARL), Army Research Office's (ARO) initial concept of exploring DNA as a tagging and tracking method has led to the discovery of an optical scanning technology that can identify counterfeit electronic components before they are integrated into Army materiel.
The technology also provides the capability to identify and...

Employees from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) provided support to this year's Maryland Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (MD JSHS) and the Collegiate Research Symposium, held at the BWI Hilton Hotel in Linthicum, Md., on March 8-9.
The MD JSHS is a regional competition conducted under the auspices of the national Junior Science and Humanities...

Two teams from U.S. Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) Weapons and Materials Research Directorate (WMRD) have won achievement awards from the Defense Standardization Program Office (DSPO).
The Laminated Armor Materials Team and the Military Coatings for Department of Defense Assets Team both received the DOD-level honor for reducing total ownership costs...

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) periodically asks civilians to volunteer to support overseas missions for a period of up to six months. Dr. Richard Tober, a scientist with ARL's Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD), is one of those rare people in the laboratory who stepped out of his comfort zone for not one theater assignment – but...

Engineers and psychologists from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Human Research Directorate, Simulation and Training Technology Center (ARL HRED STTC), and the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWC-TSD), along with members from the Central Florida...

March 22, 2013. Orlando, Fla. – The U.S. Army's Research Laboratory's, Human Research and Engineering Directorate, Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) and Intel Corporation entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to collaborate and optimize research in virtual training environments.
This unique partnership is expected...

The Army Research Laboratory's Public Affairs Office placed in several categories at the Army Materiel Command level of the 2012 Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware Public Affairs Awards Communication Competition. This marks the first year ARL's public affairs office has competed in the competition.
"When you think of the size of AMC and the number of public affairs...

Dr. Philip Perconti was recently named director of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD).
Prior to becoming director of SEDD, Perconti was the director of the Science and Technology Division of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center's Night Vision and Electronic...